GSFF15 brochure

GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 11 – 15 March 2015
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Introduction
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Award Winners Screening
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Scottish Competition
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International Competition
6-7
Calendar
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Vertical Cinema
10
Strange Electricity
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Jennifer Reeder
10
Daniel Wolfe Music Video Masterclass
10
Focus on Ukraine
11
Let Glasgow Flourish
11
A Wall Is A Screen
11
Short Com with Greg Hemphill
11
Luminous Latitude: Artists’ Film Touring Programme
12
12th Player
12
Short Stuff
12
Family Shorts
12
The Art School & Big Screen present 00:01:00
13
The Skinny Short Film Award
13
Filming The List
13
The Short Road to Features
13
Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism
14
Anatomy of a Short Film Programme
14
Duane Hopkins In Conversation: Directing Actors
14
Kevin B Lee: Desktop Documentary Workshop
14
Ani Jam
15
UWS Symposium: Creativity and Form
15
Panel: What Next?
15
Meet the Filmmakers
15
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Cover Image: Jane Carroll / Clyde Film / 1985
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STANDARD PRICE TICKETS
£6 (£5 concessions)
Some events are individually priced or free of charge
– see listings for details.
CERTIFICATION
Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and
accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 +
(suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will
be admitted).
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ONLINE
From Wednesday 28 January tickets can be purchased
from www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. Tickets can be
purchased online until one hour before the screening.
IN ADVANCE
From Wednesday 28 January you can purchase
tickets for most events from Glasgow Film Theatre
(12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on
0141 332 6535. Please note that there is a £1.50
transaction fee for telephone bookings.
You can collect advance tickets from Glasgow Film
Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance.
Please note that advance purchases can only be made
online at www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT.
DURING THE FESTIVAL
Between Wednesday 11 March and Sunday 15 March,
tickets for any GSFF event can be collected or
purchased at the screening venue.
Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.
O Glasgow Film Theatre
12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
www.glasgowfilm.org, 0141 332 6535
P The Art School: GSA Students’ Association
20 Scott Street, G3 6PE
www.theartschool.co.uk, 0141 353 4530
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60 Renfrew Street, G2 3BW
www.citizenm.com/societym, 0141 404 9489
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N CCA (Festival Hub)
350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
www.cca-glasgow.com, 0141 352 4900
R The Briggait
141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ
0141 553 5890
The Glue Factory (not shown on map)
15 Burns Street, G4 9SE
www.thegluefactory.org
UWS Creative Media Academy (not shown on map)
Film City, 401 Govan Road, G51 2QJ
www.uws.ac.uk, 0141 445 7244
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Last year was an extraordinary time in the People’s Republic of Glasgow, and in its aftermath 2015 can’t help
but feel like a year of self-questioning and transition. GSFF is in transition too, as we wave a fond farewell to
our mother festival and wander into the faintly warmer, longer days of mid-March.
So the theme of transition is woven throughout this year’s programme. Our opening event imagines a new
direction for cinema; specifically, 90˚ clockwise. Vertical Cinema breathes new life into 35mm film projection
and creates a monolith to rival Kubrick’s ape-botherer. Archive strand Let Glasgow Flourish revisits the high
hopes and the low blows of regeneration in the city, considering communities in transition. Further afield,
Ukraine is undergoing a particularly violent period of transition, and we welcome programmers from the Lviv
International Short Film Festival to present new work responding directly to current events in the country.
Daniel Wolfe, the man who painstakingly recreated an early 90s warehouse rave for Chase & Status’ Blind
Faith, will present his music videos and talk about his transition to features. We’re delighted to welcome
from Chicago the ‘King of the Video Essays’, Kevin B Lee, to introduce us to the emerging genre Desktop
Documentary. And our competition selection showcases the cutting edge of new filmmaking, devouring
the boundaries of filmmaking conventions.
Massive thanks as ever to funders Creative Scotland, to catalogue sponsor Glasgow Film Office, to programme
supporter Goethe-Institut Glasgow, and to indispensable venue partner CCA. We’re indebted to Film Hub
Scotland and Bar 91 for supporting our monumental opening event, and we warmly thank Monir Mohammed
of Mother India, for once again generously sponsoring the Scottish Short Film Award. This is the fourth year of
Mother India’s support for emerging Scottish film talent, and we applaud Monir’s loyalty and commitment to
the Scottish film industry! Enjoy the Festival.
GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as exclusive articles and filmmaker interviews.
The catalogue will be available to buy for £2 at CCA and GFT during the festival. Full listings will also appear on
our website www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff
Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
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Once again we showcase the most exciting new work emerging from across Scotland. Twenty-seven
films screen across four programmes of new Scottish work. The Scottish Short Film Award is
sponsored by Mother India, and honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. It carries
a cash prize of £1,500. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award.
The winner of this year’s Scottish Audience Award will be invited to create the GSFF16 trailer.
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GSFF stages its international competition in GFT’s state-of-the-art third screen, and we expect
many of the filmmakers to attend and take part in short Q&As after each screening. Forty-two films
have been selected from over 1,100 submissions to compete for the 2015 Bill Douglas Award for
International Short Film. Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, this prize will be awarded
to the film that best reflects the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation
and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. The award carries a cash prize of
£1,200. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award.
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A shortlist of ten films drawn from the Scottish competition and from UK films within the
international competition will compete for the Award for Innovation in Storytelling, supported
by Channel 4’s Alpha Fund and worth £500.
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (20.30)
2h, N/C 15+
First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow
Short Film Festival 2015. We will announce and screen the
recipients of the jury awards, as well as the films voted
the favourite of the audience in each competition. Also
screening will be the results of the 48 hour Ani Jam
animation challenge and the winning films in The Art School
and Big Screen’s one minute short competition. End the
festival on a cinematic high, in the presence of the winning
filmmakers and our other special guests.
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CCA THEATRE
Thursday 12 March (21.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
The weight of the older generation bears heavily on the protagonists
of the first selection. Whether present or long gone, mum and dad are
always with us, guiding us, getting in our way, giving us the guilts
bigtime. The programme includes two documentaries from Scottish
Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap scheme, films by Glasgow
filmmakers Raisah Ahmed and Artur Zaremba, and the long-awaited
premiere of David Lumsden’s CGI epic, Boat.
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CCA THEATRE
Friday 13 March (19.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
A shadowy journey through the enigmatic, seamy side of Scottish filmmaking,
from vampires to animal experiments, exploitation and death. Isolation
leads to increasingly paranoid competitiveness in Jeppe Rohde Nielsen’s
Game, whilst a strange form of reunion takes place in Tim Courtney’s
Sunsets & Silhouettes. Also featuring a new work by artist Michelle Hannah,
the BAFTA-nominated Monkey Love Experiments and a deathly ride on a
Vincent Black Lightning motorbike, courtesy of animator Cat Bruce.
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CCA THEATRE
Saturday 14 March (19.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
In the third Scottish selection, characters stray from normality in ways
both small and large. Let it all hang out, sweep the old order away,
resistance may be futile, but it’s beautiful. Ian Waugh’s As He Lay Falling
comes home after an impressive international festival run, whilst Ronald
Forbes’ Only Make Believe and Scott Willis’ Pigeon are brand new. Also
featuring films by Peter Mackie Burns, Claire Lamond and the mysterious
Kristof Babaski.
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (15.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
For all our flaws and quirks, love blooms in the final Scottish programme.
New connections are tentatively made whilst others are severed once
and for all. One couple enjoys a wee night in, and another goes out
shooting. Kate Burton’s BB captures the awkwardness of first attractions;
Rory Stewart’s Wyld explores the pressing need for change. Also
featuring the new film by GSFF14 Scottish Short Film Award winner
Ewan Stewart, What Happens After Six.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Wednesday 11 March (18.30)
Sunday 15 March (13.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
In an irrational world, we need the support of others to give our lives
shape and meaning. The attempt to impose order on chaos will never
succeed – we can either paper over the cracks or embrace the constant
change, reaching out and helping those around us. This programme
features the latest work by Caroline Sascha Cogez, the subject of our
2013 retrospective, alongside acclaimed Hungarian animation Symphony
No 42, and Swedish black comedy Lifestyle.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Wednesday 11 March (20.45)
Sunday 15 March (15.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
A programme exploring the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining,
depression and acceptance; not as five distinct experiences to be worked
through in a tidy linear progression, but as competing, conflicting,
reoccurring emotions. A haunting, emotive selection. The programme
includes award-winning Argentinian animation Father, Polish/Armenian
documentary-style drama Milky Brother and Missing by American-Ugandan
actor/director/photographer Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Thursday 12 March (13.15)
Friday 13 March (18.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
A life-sized dolls house burns to the ground in the opening film of this
programme, and the films that follow variously celebrate and reject
conventions of young womanhood, innocence and sisterhood. From
the ethics of exploitation in the name of art, to misguided parenting
and teenage solidarity, this is a sharp, self-reflexive and often hilarious
selection of films. Featuring brand new works by Adrian Sitaru (GSFF11
award winner) and Jennifer Reeder.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Thursday 12 March (15.30)
Friday 13 March (20.45)
1h45m, N/C 15+
Jobsworths, layabouts and dreamers – no one takes pride in their work
anymore. A pedantic swimming pool attendant experiences the shift from
hell, whilst a wantonly cruel pet shop manager gets what’s coming to
him. Given a brand new planet to populate in Greek/Georgian film Kepler,
humans prove just as vain and incompetent as they are on Earth, whilst in
the stunning Cuban drama Twilight a reluctant clown performing in the
sticks awaits the promise of a better acting gig in the city.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Thursday 12 March (18.30)
Saturday 14 March (13.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
We live in a restless world. Those who strike out for a better life, or
who are chased from their homes, as often as not end their journey in
disappointment, stasis or tragedy. For some, a short trip across town
is an epic voyage, whilst others think nothing of cross-border bargain
hunting. This programme charts such journeys, from devastation off the
coast of Lampedusa, via limbo in Greece, to Nordic squabbles and an
exhaustive super-cut of New York City on the move.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Thursday 12 March (20.45)
Saturday 14 March (15.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
Bad behaviour from kids is one thing, but the grownups should know
better. Some will never learn, others are trying to make amends, others still
are damned whatever they do. All fun and games, until it isn’t. Featuring
Earth Over Wind, the latest work from Glasgow’s own Joern Utkilen, this
time working in his native Norway, plus The Noise, a cutting edge Iranian
study of paranoia, surveillance and judgemental neighbours and Parking,
a masterful drama from Bulgaria.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Friday 13 March (13.15)
Saturday 14 March (18.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
The past is not another country, we can never truly leave it behind. A
programme of five films which bring repressed memories both personal
and collective bubbling to the surface, even in the act of living fully in the
present. Visualising historical forces in very different ways, the films take
us from Ramallah seen through the eyes of a gay Lebanese couple,
to Taiwan under Dutch rule, the former East Germany, and finally to the
heady spiritual fervour of a gospel church in Florida.
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GFT CINEMA 3
Friday 13 March (15.30)
Saturday 14 March (20.45)
1h45m, N/C 15
The final international competition programme features five films in which
characters are presented as scientific case studies, observed in the field,
thrust into a baffling new world with detached curiosity. Some remain
blissfully unaware of their fate, others rebel against it, like the homeless
victims of the Fukushima disaster documented in Radioactive, who cast
off typical Japanese stoicism to battle civic incompetence. Also featuring
BAFTA-nominated Scottish animation Monkey Love Experiments and the
latest work from the brilliant Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow.
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11.00 – 13.00
Duane Hopkins
In Conversation
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Short Stuff
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13.30 – 15.00
Panel: What Next?
13.15 – 15.00
International 7
Past Historic
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13.15 – 15.00
International 3
Sugar & Spice
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15.30 – 17.15
Kevin B Lee
Workshop
15.30 – 17.15
International 8
Field Studies
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15.30 – 17.15
International 4
A Job Well Done
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19.30 – 21.15
Scottish 2
Dark Days
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21.30 – 23.00
Daniel Wolfe
Masterclass
20.45 – 22.30
International 4
A Job Well Done
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21.15 – 23.00
Scottish 1
Parenthood
21.00 – 22.30
Jennifer Reeder
20.45 – 22.30
International 6
Trouble Brewing
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21.00 – 23.00
Vertical Cinema
Those Left Behind
20.45 – 22.30
International 2
19.30 – 21.15
Anatomy of a Short
Film Programme
18.30 – 20.15
International 3
Sugar & Spice
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18.30 – 20.00
The Art School/
Big Screen: 00:01:00
19.15 – 20.45
The Skinny
Short Film Award
19.00 – 20.45
Focus on Ukraine 1
18.30 – 20.15
International 5
Motion Sickness
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18.30 – 20.15
International 1
Help Me
17.30 – 19.00
The Short Road
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11.30 – 12.45
Family Shorts
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13.15 – 15.00
International 5
Motion Sickness
13.00 – 15.00
Filming The List
13.00 – 15.00
Let Glasgow Flourish 2
13.15 – 15.00
International 1
Help Me
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10.30 – 18.00
Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism
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16
15.30 – 17.15
International 6
Trouble Brewing
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15.15 – 17.00
Scottish 4
Soulmates
15.30 – 17.15
Focus on Ukraine 2
Those Left Behind
15.30 – 17.15
International 2
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15.15 – 17.00
Let Glasgow Flourish 1
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17.30 – 19.30
Meet the
Filmmakers
17.30 – 19.00
12th Player
Jennifer Reeder
18.00 – 19.30
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20.30 – 22.30
Award Winners
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21.15 – 23.00
Short Com
with Greg Hemphill
20.45 – 22.30
International 8
Field Studies
20.30 – 02.00
Strange Electricity
19.30 – 21.00
A Wall is A Screen
19.15 – 21.00
Scottish 3
Off the Path
18.30 – 20.15
International 7
Past Historic
17.30 – 19.00
Luminous Latitude
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THE BRIGGAIT
Wednesday 11 March (Doors 20.30, event starts 21.00)
2h, N/C 15+
We open the festival in spectacular style with a monumental and mesmerising
audio-visual experience: ten new works by internationally renowned experimental
filmmakers, projected vertically on 35 mm celluloid with a custom-built projector
in vertical cinemascope. A unique blend of abstract cinema, structural
experiments, found footage remixes, chemical film explorations and live laser
action, Vertical Cinema represents a provocation to expand the cinematic image
onto a new axis. Prepare to have your mind well and truly blown!
Tickets £8.
Please note that The Briggait is a covered outdoor space – dress warmly!
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THE GLUE FACTORY
Saturday 14 March (Doors for screening 20.00, starts 20.30.
Doors for party 21.30, first act starts 22.00)
5h30, 18+
Shot in 16mm, Sähkö the Movie documents Finnish ultra-minimalist techno
label Sähkö Recordings in its mid-90s prime. It was directed by label chief Jimi
Tenor, and features Tenor himself, Mika Vainio aka Ø, Pan(a)sonic, Hertsi, and
even Glasgow’s own Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch. Jimi and Twitch will present
a twentieth anniversary screening, followed by live sets by Jimi Tenor and
Golden Teacher, and DJ sets by JD Twitch and Bake.
Screening and party £12 (very limited capacity). Party only £8.
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CCA CINEMA
Thursday 12 March (21.00)
Sunday 15 March (18.00 – repeat screening)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Midwestern filmmaker and artist Jennifer Reeder’s most recent film A Million
Miles Away was the undisputed hit of the short film circuit in 2014. Reeder
channels Miranda July and David Lynch in her bittersweet tale of an insecure
supply teacher and a choir of savvy schoolgirls. To accompany the first UK
screening of her new film Blood Below The Skin (International Competition 3),
GSFF presents A Million Miles Away and three previous works, the
Forevering Trilogy.
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CCA THEATRE
Friday 13 March (21.30)
1h30m
Genius is an overused word, but Daniel Wolfe’s videos for Chase & Status’
Blind Faith, Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky, The Shoes’ Time to Dance and Plan B’s
The Defamation of Strickland Banks come close. Each one a technically
brilliant piece of visual storytelling, they elevate the songs to new emotional
levels without overwhelming them. Don’t miss this chance to hear Daniel
show and talk about his promo work, as well as his recent move into feature
direction with the critically acclaimed Catch Me Daddy (GFF2015).
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PROGRAMME 1: BABYLON ‘13
CCA Cinema, Thursday 12 March (19.00)
PROGRAMME 2: CRY, BUT SHOOT!
CCA Cinema, Sunday 15 March (15.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art presents two specially curated
programmes of new work from Ukraine. The first programme showcases the
work of Babylon ’13, a collective making web-docs in response to current
events, and founded on the idea that documentary can change people’s views
on the reality around them. The second programme takes its title from the
words of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Ukraine’s most famous filmmaker, and
showcases a wide range of new fiction produced in the country.
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PROGRAMME 1: BEST LAID SCHEMES
CCA Cinema, Saturday 14 March (15.15)
PROGRAMME 2: THE GAME’S A BOGEY
GFT Cinema 2, Sunday 15 March (13.00)
1h45m / 2h, N/C 15+
In 1985, a collective of young unemployed people living in Cranhill produced
Clyde Film, a poetic history of the people of Glasgow told only in music and
images, and set against scenes of failed regeneration. To mark the 30th
anniversary of this quietly raging masterpiece, GSFF has curated two programmes
exploring the city’s cycle of renewal. The first programme features archive
documentaries from the 1940s onwards, whilst the second programme shows
the varying responses of local communities to the changes thrust upon them.
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CCA TERRACE BAR (OUTSIDE)
Saturday 14 March (19.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Both guided city tour and short film night, Hamburg collective A Wall Is A
Screen invites you to see Glasgow in a way you’ve never previously
experienced the city. This guerrilla mobile screening takes over neglected
spaces, familiar buildings and commercial facades for ten minutes of lovingly
curated short film before moving on to the next location – the ultimate pop-up
cinema!
Free unticketed event: meet outside CCA Terrace Bar, Scott Street,
prepared for March weather.
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CCA THEATRE
Saturday 14 March (21.15)
1h45m, N/C 15+
Short Com is delighted to make its return to Glasgow Short Film Festival for
2015. Short Com is a regular showcase of the finest independent comic
shorts around, by new comedic filmmaking talent, chosen from open
submissions. Showcasing the best films from its tour of 2014, this screening
will be hosted by obscure Scots-Canadian performance artist Gregor
Hemphill. Short Com supports the mental health charities CALM and SAMH
and will be collecting voluntary donations after the screening.
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CCA CINEMA
Saturday 14 March (17.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Twelve short films inviting broad questions around how a sense of place may act
as a grounding for our individual and collective creative identity. Highlighting the
rich diversity of contemporary Scottish experimental film practice, these
filmmakers explore a range of landscapes, techniques, themes and attitudes; from
poetic lyricism, through representation and abstraction, to political appropriation.
Is there, perhaps, a distinctive diversity emerging from this very place?
Luminous Latitude is an Alchemy Film & Arts project and is supported by The Craignish Trust.
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (17.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Turning the camera away from the pitch, this specially curated programme
celebrates any football team’s greatest asset: the fans. Ranging from animation to artists’ moving image, from documentary to fiction, films made about
and by the most obsessive of devotees take us on a near transcendental
journey, from the border between Austria and Germany to Maradona’s
infamous goal against England in Mexico 1986. Expect laughs, chanting,
the odd punch thrown and maybe a wee bit of fitba.
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CCA CINEMA
Thursday 12 March (11.00)
1h15m, N/C 12+
The ever-popular Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from
across the GSFF15 programme, specially chosen for parents and babies.
The selection will remain a secret until the curtains open, but we guarantee
entertaining and thought-provoking drama, documentary and animation from
around the world. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights
will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening.
Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!)
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (11.30)
1h15m, N/C 5+
Forget TV cartoons. Once again our annual family programme brings you the
most exciting new animation from around the world, up on the big screen.
By turns daft, silly, sad, spooky and uplifting, this programme will showcase a
wide range of stunning animation techniques and take you on journeys you
never thought possible. Feel free to turn up in your jammies, wrapped up in a
duvet. Sunday mornings couldn’t be more cosy!
One ticket admits one adult and one child.
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THE ART SCHOOL
Thursday 12 March (18.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
There are movements over at The Art School... a great mass of students gather
together to show off their one-minute transitions! The Art School and Big
Screen, GSA's film society, invite you to step into the chrysalis of the Assembly
Hall and journey with us through a non-stop barrage of student-made
ultra-shorts. Help us choose the favourites to be shown at the GSFF15 Award
Winners screening on Sunday 15th of March. See you there caterpillars!
Free entry, no ticket required
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CCA THEATRE
Thursday 12 March (19.15)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Last year, The Skinny launched a competition to find the best new micro-budget
short film made in Scotland. The winning entry was Rory Alexander Stewart’s
genre-hopping mockumentary Good Girl. We’re delighted to present the debut
screening of Misery Guts, the film Rory made with his prize money courtesy
of partners Innis & Gunn, alongside Good Girl, as well as some of the best
submissions we received, ranging from a meta sex comedy to a claustrophobic
sci-fi fantasy.
Free entry, tickets available on the day from CCA box office.
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CCA CINEMA
Sunday 15 March (13.00)
2h, N/C 15+
In 2013, theatre company Stellar Quines commissioned BAFTA-winning film
director Morag McKinnon to work alongside stage director Muriel Romanes
to produce a cinema version of their award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe
production The List. Their aim was to create a filmed experience that didn’t
compromise the live-ness and intimacy of the actor’s relationship with an
audience. This screening of the film will be followed by a discussion between
theatre- and filmmakers about the opportunities for collaboration between
these two art forms.
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CCA CINEMA
Friday 13 March (17.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Short films are often an important stepping stone to feature filmmaking.
The team behind Scottish Film Talent Network present some of their favourite
‘career-making’ shorts, followed by a discussion on what made them stand
out. Supported by Creative Scotland and Creative Skillset, and in partnership
with the BFI Net.Work, SFTN was established to nurture new and emerging
filmmakers across Scotland. This new initiative aims to provide a ladder of
progression from shorts to first feature. www.scottishfilmtalent.com
Free entry, tickets available on the day from CCA box office.
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CCA THEATRE
Saturday 14 March (10.30)
7h30m
A series of discussions considering film criticism in the context of short film:
critical writing on short film, short film curation as criticism, and short filmmaking
as criticism. The symposium is presented by Glasgow Short Film Festival and
University of Glasgow School of Culture & Creative Arts, in association with
University of Edinburgh: MSc Film, Exhibition & Curation and Scottish Media
and Communications Association.
Free entry. For information on speakers and to register a place, go to
www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff.
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CCA CINEMA
Friday 13 March (19.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
How do short film programmes shape the films they contain? Kickstarting
the discussion on short film curation as criticism in Saturday’s symposium,
students of Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh
present a programme of short films alongside their analysis of every curatorial
decision, considering their reasons for both selection and rejection. This
dissection of curatorial creative processes aims to lay bare implications
of criticism, contextualization and taste-making in short film curation.
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CCA THEATRE
Friday 13 March (11.00)
2h
Having developed a distinctive voice in two multi-award winning shorts,
Field (2001) and Love Me or Leave Me Alone (2003), Duane Hopkins went
on to make two equally uncompromising and acclaimed features, Better
Things (2008) and Bypass (2014). He has coaxed extraordinarily honest
performances out of first time or untrained actors. Don’t miss this in-depth
conversation in which Duane will discuss every aspect of directing actors and
non-actors, from casting and rehearsing to shooting and editing performance.
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CCA THEATRE
Friday 13 March (15.30)
1h45m
Kevin B Lee is a master of the online video essay, with over 200 works to his
name. Recently he and others at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
have developed a form of filmmaking called Desktop Documentary, which
treats the computer screen as both a camera lens and a canvas. Desktop
documentary seeks to both depict and question the ways we explore the
world through the computer screen. Kevin will present his fresh approach to
capturing life’s reality in this vital workshop.
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Kick-off Friday 13 March (18.30)
All weekend, N/C 15+
The Ani Jam is a 48-hour animation competition held over a whirlwind weekend
in which animators and creatives are invited to produce an animated film. The
concept is easy; teams between 2 and 10 people create an animated film between
30-90 seconds long, based around a particular theme. 48 hours to produce an
animation from start to finish? Seems ridiculous? Come join us and find out!
Entry for a team of up to 10 is £75. To register your team, go to
www.theanijam.com.
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FILM CITY
Thursday 12 March (09.30)
7h30
The path from short to feature is a road most filmmakers eventually take.
But how do you make the transition from capturing a short fragment of life
to developing character and narrative over ninety minutes? In this one-day
symposium filmmakers Duane Hopkins and Shalimar Preuss, documentarians
Nick Higgins and Peter Snowdon, and producer Paul Welsh discuss their
experience of working across shorts and features.
Free entry. For more information or to register please go to
www.uws.ac.uk/schools/school-of-media-culture-and-society/conferences/
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CCA THEATRE
Friday 13 March (13.30)
1h30m
So you’ve made a short. Good work. Now what? There’s no clear path to
success (whether that’s untold riches, critical acclaim or just the chance to
make another one). This panel brings together several industry experts to
present the various opportunities for short filmmakers and help you decide
what next step is best for you and your film: festival screenings, online
distribution, sales, broadcast and/or further commissions. A rare opportunity
to corner the powerbrokers!
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CCA CLUBROOM
Sunday 15 March (17.30)
2h
All Scottish and International competition screenings will include brief
Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, once all the competition
programmes have screened, but before the winners are announced, here’s
your chance to participate in an informal discussion session with all the
international filmmakers attending, led by festival director Matt Lloyd.
Free entry, no ticket required, and there may even be a free drink or two
on offer.
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